By Gillian Flynn, 2012
"There's something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold."
In this modern day thriller, husband and wife take a chapter each to try and convince the reader that they are the one to empathize with.
During the first half of 'Gone Girl', each chapter ends with such dramatic twists and turns that the reader will find themselves promising 'just one more chapter', before hungrily devouring another four.
Right from the start this crime thriller will throw clues and details and red herrings from its pages; reader will turn detective by frantically suspecting every character, more than likely - every character, but the correct!
The second half of the book slows down, with less page-turning excitement and more tying up of loose ends. Who wins out of husband and wife in winning the audience's affection? Actually, neither. Both are self-important, arrogant and egotistical characters, whose 'relationship' mocks the very idea of love.
The final chapter is unsatisfying, but with a sense of well-deserved inevitability.
